Battle of Sunrise Camp

The Battle of Sunrise Camp was an action of Red Cloud's War that took place in 1866 when the US Army launched a raid on a Sioux camp in Platte County, Wyoming. The Sioux under Red Cloud had been raiding American settlements along the Bozeman Trail, including the newly-founded town of Starks, Wyoming (which had been established by settlers from nearby Fort Laramie), and the Americans prepared a force of dragoons and artillery to destroy Red Cloud's village at Sunrise Camp. The American dragoons massacred the Sioux villagers in additio to the warriors, and the artillery destroyed the town center and other buildings, devastating the village. With the town center destroyed, the Americans were able to move on to destroy Crazy Horse's base at Dwyer Junction.